CSR Mercuria 2018 - Flipbook - Page 50
Preplanning and resource identification to assure quick response to spill events. This includes
memberships with various response and spill
remediation organization whose physical assets
and personnel are staged in literally hundreds of
locations around the globe. Coupled to these are
emergency notification phone numbers to which
events can be reported. All calls will be answered
by a live person who can connect with near universal language translation services and can not
only provide immediate information on a wide
range of commodities Mercuria handles, but will
also actively ensure that notification is provided to
appropriate Mercuria staff as may be needed to
address a situation.
Specific to each business or operation, the local
management also regularly monitor and advise
upon developing regulations and standards. In
this manner, Mercuria strives to ensure its businesses and operations are not only compliant
with existing standards or obligations but are actively engaged in looking to future improvements.
Emission Inventories, Discharge Monitoring and
Greenhouse Gas Reporting
As appropriate to each business or operation,
the local operations maintain day-to-day tracking
of attributes related to the specifics of those assets. This includes an extremely broad range of
considerations including tracking throughputs of
tankage, physical characteristics of the materials
being handled, proper operation of emission re-
covery or control systems, and so on.
Beyond individual facility emission inventories or
discharge monitoring, Mercuria also reports at
a corporate level on its activities consistent with
certain national programs. Included with this is an
annual report to the US EPA in regard to the Greenhouse Gas emissions which could be attributed
to products which were managed through Mercuria’s business. While only representing a portion
of Mercuria’s global business, these reports are
made publically available as per US law.
As both an importer and exporter of energy related commodities to / from the United States, Mercuria also participates in Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
reporting under the US EPA’s “Scope 3” reporting
protocol. While representing only a portion of
Mercuria’s global business, these reports quantify the GHG emissions expected from the use
of the commodities we have brought to market,
with the gross assumption that the commodities
will be combusted as fuel. (As a practical matter,
many of the commodities we trade in may also
ultimately be used to produce goods, which would
not have the same resultant emissions.) Some of
our subsidiary companies are also subject to requirements to report GHG emissions related to
their operations as either “Scope 1” or “Scope 2”
under the US EPA’s GHG Protocol.
Mercuria reported GHG emissions under the US
EPA’s
GHG REPORTING PROGRAM, SUBPARTS A AND MM
Calendar Year
Total GHG Imports
(metric tons CO2e)
Total GHG Exports
(metric tons CO2e)
Total net GHG
(metric tons CO2e)
2014
2,404,712.4
4,455,519.5
-2,050,807.1
2015
789,534.6
321,5331
-2,425,796.4
2016
2,198,207.4
709,594.2
1,488,613.2
2017
1,195,494.3
2,890,884.8
-1,695,390.5
2018
168,491.2
13,612,202.4
-13,443,711.2
As described more fully above, these values are reported under the specific focus and jurisdiction of
the US EPA’s Scope 3 protocol. They do not reflect commodities which were produced within the US
as these are quantified and reported separately by the production companies.
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